nagado bachi (usually larger diameter, harder "kashi" wood)
earplugs
Opening:
"If you were a taiko drum, what would you be?"
breathing exercise
a different tai chi exercise
-- moving through space
-- arm swinging side to side like a "den den Daiko"
-- gradually shifting weight from right foot to left foot, and travel through space while maintaining the arm swing
2 mins drum roll
-- Left handed stance
-- Right handed stance
finding the just right range of motion
Grounding practice with finding the downbeat
Right Hand -- (1) 2 (3) 4 (5) 6 (7) 8
Right Hand -- (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
Right + Left -- (1) (2) n (3) (4) n (5) (6) n (7) (8) n
(don doko don doko don doko don doko)
don doko don doko don doko don don
Review "su don su don su don don"
Final Video of all four patterns together
https://youtu.be/thYcCt899LA